Dumping-wagon.



Y No. 673,454. Patented may 7, mol.l

w. Ross a F. & c. sTlFFLEn.

DUMPING WAGUN.

(Application led Oct. 12, 1900.)

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WALTER ROSS, FREDERICK STIFFLER, AND COLUMBUS STIFFLER, OF

MUNCIE, INDIANA.

DUNIPING-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,454, dated May *7, 1901.

Application filed October 12, 1900. Serial No. 32,888. No model.)

To a/ZZ wir/0m t may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER ROSS, FRED- ERICK STIFFLER, and COLUMBUS STIFFLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Dumping-Wagon, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toimproveinents in dumping-wagons; and the object is to provide a simple and improved construction which may be readily and conveniently operated to instantly dump the load or a portion thereof.

With the above object in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafterfully described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis aperspective view of a dumpingwagon embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 a vertical transverse sectional view of the same.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, A designates the holsters of the wagon-bed, upon which the sides B of the body are supported. Said sides are connected by the ends C, which ends are inclined, as illustrated, for the purpose of shortening the swinging bottom and also for dumping the load between the holsters A. Connecting the sides of the body at their upper edges and adjacent to their respective ends are the cross-pieces D, which support the pairs of bearings E. Mounted upon each cross-piece in the bearings E is a pair of shafts E, formed adjacent to their inner ends with cranks G and carrying at their outer ends segments H. The bottom of the body of the wagon is formed of four sections I, the outer sections being hinged to the sides of the body and the inner sections to a centrally-disposed longitudinally-eXtending board J. This board divides the bottom into two portions, each of which is composed of two swinging sections. Each of the cranks G carries a connecting-rod K,

formed in its free end with eyes K', and connecting said rods with the sections of the bottom are links L, engaging at one end in the eyes of the connecting-rod and at their opposite ends in eyes M, carried by said sections.

From the above description it will be seen that two swinging sections of each half of the bottom are raised and lowered by one of the cranks G at one end of the body and one of said cranks at the opposite end thereof.

Sliding in suitable guides N, bolted t0 the exterior of the sides of the body,are bars O,carrying upon their upper edges racks P, which mesh with the segments of the crank-shafts. At the forward end of the body and upon each side thereof a lever Q is pivotally supported at its lower end, and connecting said levers with sliding bars are the links R.

The wagon-bed may be of any preferred construction,and the construction ofthe body may be varied from that described and illustrated in this application.

From the above description it will be seen that by moving either of the levers Q in one direction two of the sections of the body may be swung downwardly, dumping one half of the load, and by moving` said lever in the reverse direction said sections may be returned to their normal positions. By moving both of the levers the entire load may be dumped. In their normal positions the cranks stand past the center and are locked in that position by abutting lugs S, formed on the bearings E.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with the bottom of the body formed of swinging sections, of a crank-shaft mounted upon said body and carrying a segment, an operative connection between the crank of said shaft and said swinging sections, a reciprocating rack meshing with said segment and means for reciprocating said rack, substantially as described.

2. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with the bottom of the body formed of swinging sections, of a crank-shaft mounted upon lalle body and carrying a, segment., an operative connection between the crank of said shaft and the swinging sections, a sliding rack supported by the body and meshing with the segment, a, lever mounted upon the body,

and an operative connection between said 1everzmd said rack substantially as described. 1o

WALTER ROSS. FREDERICK STIFFLER. COLUMBUS STIFFLER.

Witnesses: n*

JACOB STIFFLER, L. S. BROWN. 

